Re: exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork - reboot

1998-10-23 Thread Hannu Koivisto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: | Did you install a new sysklogd as well? It has known problems - | install at least -30 and CERTAINLY NOT -28 or -29 ! Well, I had -27 which was the latest in my Debian mirror when I updated packets. I upgraded to -30 now -- we'll see if that

exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork - reboot

1998-10-22 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Greetings, Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new processes can't have been started. vfork: resource temporarily unavailable is what my shell (zsh) says. If, with echo ` file`, I examine the contents of /proc

Re: CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a | recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need | writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface | and would prefer an internal unit. Well, our company

Re: Debian Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread Hannu Koivisto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | egcs 1.0.3 still does not understand namespaces fully yet, but its C++ | support is a big improvement over 2.7.2.3's . The original poster might want to try latest egcs snapshots from egcs.cygnus.com. They work better for me than 1.0.3 in general and they include

Re: Unix commands on NT

1998-07-22 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Adam Heczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Sometimes I have to use NT machine at work, but I miss UNIX commands. | Are there any shells/utils for NT which have similair interaction/syntax to their UNIX | protoplatst ? http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ There's a non-cygwin zsh port available @

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Mark Mealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no_spam) writes: | Is SVGAlib going to be updated any time soon? I know it's a major hack with Well, I guess some ppl hack it still somewhat (for example, I know a certain fellow who recently added support for a new graphics card), but I don't think there will be

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be dir /s *.whatever | but this doesn't work with ls like ls -R *.deb, for instance. I can do | ls -R | more and then use more's search ability but this is getting | tiring. Man page isn't too helpful

Where has logwrites gone?

1998-06-16 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Greetings, I have noticed that a package logwrites hasn't been available for a long time anymore. Any ideas why it has disappeared and whether it will come back or not? for-curious-ppl Some time ago I hacked up some administration tools that allow me to keep all (/usr/)local installations under

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-15 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | lpd tends to die within a day or so, and pland dies within minutes, announcing | (incorrectly) an application logout. I'm not using pland but I get exactly the same behaviour with lpd on our production system. If you find a solution for this,

Re: xemacs splits mail

1998-05-29 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Stefan Gödel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm using VM. Does this really matter? I always felt that reading and | writing / sending of mail are very distinct from each other (at least in | xemacs). I'm using the usual mail mode with mime extensions to write | my mail. As you provided _no_ usable

Re: Recommend an ODBC-compliant database for Linux?

1998-03-12 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Does anyone have experience with anything else? I.e., Empress, others? | What's out there? I really need some ideas. If you plan to run it on a Debian system, I'd like to suggest MySQL. It's available as a Debian package and there's a Win32 ODBC driver

Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-24 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of | this. | | 1. What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make | the browser better? | | 2. What features would you add to the browser? I don't